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blown out of proportion

blown out of proportion is the past participle of blow out of proportion.

Meaning of blow out of proportion

Verb

blow out of proportion (third-person singular simple present blows out of proportion, present participle blowing out of proportion, simple past blew out of proportion, past participle blown out of proportion)

  1. (idiomatic, transitive) To overreact to or overstate; to treat too seriously or be overly concerned with.
    • I don’t think we need to blow it out of proportion. There’s a problem, and we should fix it.

Questions about blown out of proportion

What is blown out of proportion the past participle of?
Blown out of proportion is the past participle of blow out of proportion.

Words near blown out of proportion in the dictionary

  1. blown one's stack
  2. blown one's top
  3. blown one's wad
  4. blown one's wig
  5. blown out
  6. blown out of proportion
  7. blown out of proportions
  8. blown out of the water
  9. blown out one's bags
  10. blown over
  11. blown past

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